the more i play the more i think mai is top tier. every fireball drive rush character follows an obvious conscious design pattern where they are missing key tools like reversals, throw loops, good oki with shimmies, etc. yet for some reason, mai has none of these weaknesses. most insane fireball drive rush that always destroys your drive meter no matter how you defend it, crazy corner carry, incredible oki, meterless throw loops in the corner, gets safe shimmies on every oki situation, top 1 walk speed, fairly safe pressure and ways to fraudulently get all the way back into point blank throw shimmy without meter. and she gets a giant juri level stand fierce that is hit confirmable, AND a giant, fast, difficult to whiff punish stmp that is also hit confirmable when chun got her's removed? AND despite all these crazy buttons she still gets to have a standard long reaching stmk unlike characters like ken who whiff on crouching? AND she gets a sthk that goes half screen and leads into juggles? AND all these giant buttons have comical pushback so you never can pressure her after blocking them even when she does them point blank meanwhile every other character like ken and cammy's giant heavy kicks are all minus or even punishable and let you threaten afterwards unless spaced with pixel perfect precision? AND while no one else gets oki from level 1 and rashid got his tornado setups removed, she gets to get FIVE free neutral skips into throw shimmy after a successful level 1? AND her level 2 skips fireballs on reaction?